Thomas Wharton Quotes

I respect the view of a rating agency, but I do not make a budget for the rating agency. I make a budget for the people of India.

What you don't do, if you're an adult, is decide that you're going to budget things through a sequester. What does that word have to do with budgeting? It's like if you have a family budget and go, 'We really don't know what to take out economically from the budget, so we're going to whack out protein for this week.'

I was not born and bred a Chancellor of the Exchequer; I am one of the Parliamentary rabble.

It hath been observed in the nature of Arithmetick, that like other parts of the Mathematicks, it doth not only improve the Rational Faculties, but inclines those that are expert in it to thrifiness and good Husbandry, and prevents both Husbands and Wives in some measure from running out of their Estates, when they have it always ready in their Heads what their expences do amount to, and how soon by that course their ruine must overtake them.

It is dangerous to play politics with the Budget.

Can there be a more lamentable picture than that of a Chancellor of the Exchequer seated on an empty chest by a pool of bottomless deficiency fishing for a budget?

We will cut off his head with the crown upon it.

Who's going to do a better job of spending your money? You or the government?

Fiscal prudence is very important.

More generally, I strongly believe in the importance of fiscal responsibility.

A two-year budget is not an ideology.

If I hear one more Republican tell me about balancing the budget, I am going to strangle them.

Economy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely.

People know that you can't spend more than you have.

Now, people when I say that look at me and say, 'What are you talking about, Joe? You're telling me we have to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt?'. The answer is yes, that's what I'm telling you.

Every family in America knows they have to do a budget. Every small business in America knows they have to do a budget. Every local government, every state, knows they have to do a budget.

If it's hemorrhaging cash, you've got to do something about it. You can't live with your head in the sand.

Every budget I have ever prepared has been balanced.

The party in power almost always unapologetically engages in deficit spending, while the other party argues passionately against the evils of debt and deficits.

A trillion here, a trillion there and pretty soon you're talking about real money.

Can there not be a limit to the fact that really you need to cut your cloth in accordance with what capabilities and finances you have?

People try to live within their income so they can afford to pay taxes to a government that can't live within its income.

We're all concerned about the budget. We're all concerned about what's happening financially in our country. There's no question about it. Congress is working day and night. In fact, every time I go home the lights are on at the top of the Capitol.

I've never really seen other people spend other people's money wisely.

Adhering to budgeting rules shouldn't trump good decision-making.